The hottest sports law topics at the moment seem to be conference realignment, NFLPA decertification, and the lingering athlete agent laws and NCAA regulations that are ineffective and ignored by many. A future symposium aims to discuss the latter issue to an extent, and only concerning the NCAA. What: Boston College Law Review Symposium: Legal […]
Month: September 2010
When I left you last time, I had just returned from the Sudbury Wolves 2010 Training Camp. Before I go any further, I want to thank all the members of the team and local media who I was fortunate enough to get to know during my stay in town. Specifically I’d like to thank President/GM […]
It is tough to find anybody in the sports agent profession who has not talked about Howard Beck’s New York Times story titled, Tampering Leads to Rare Penalty Against Agent. It is not such a hot topic because someone was actually convinced that an agent knowingly recruited another agent’s client. It was newsworthy because an […]
As Marc Isenberg correctly pointed out on this website not too long ago, Sports Agents = The Issue de Jour. But for much of the past few months, the focus of the media and the NCAA Agent, Gambling and Amateurism division has been on sports agents’ relationships with football student-athletes. The University of North Carolina-Chapel […]
On March 16, 2010, I received the following message on LinkedIn: Hey Darren – love to hear more about your sports agent blog…..Working with almost every agent now, and O-D Life is providing an agent analysis for kids coming out of school so that they arent taken advantage or risk eligibility a-la-Dez Bryant. Matt I was skeptical […]
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Women in the Locker Room
Lately the controversy concerning women in the locker room has resurfaced. This arose after a reporter, Ines Sainz, felt uncomfortable while interviewing Quarterback Mark Sanchez of the Jets in their locker room last week. By law, women are permitted in the locker room. This was decided in 1985 when the NFL mandated equal access. This […]
In news that officially broke this past Friday, September 17th, Penn State will officially add Division I hockey to its lineup of collegiate athletics. The announcement brings both a men’s and women’s program to the Nittany Lions’ athletic department and adds to the number of D-I college hockey programs in Pennsylvania, which currently includes Mercyhurst […]
For the fourth straight year, we are honored to be involved with a group of the web’s best blogs in a venture to provide previews for each NBA team. As is the norm, I will be covering the Miami Heat. Besides posting the Heat preview, I will be linking to the other sites that are […]
Anyone looking forward to the start of Yom Kippur tonight? I know that my body is not excited; my stomach is used to having to digest food almost every two hours. Good luck to Clint Robinson and the Northwest Arkansas Naturals (the Double-A Kansas City Royals Affiliate) as they attempt to capture the Texas League […]
With week 1 of the NFL season officially in the books, many football analysts start turning their attention towards surprise teams, surprise players and early season trends. While Calvin Johnson’s controversial TD call, the Jets inability to gain positive yardage and the stunner in Kansas City all made headlines in week 1, the injuries were […]